It has been twelve years since the 1998 nuclear tests in India and Pakistan. Sufficient time has passed to draw some conclusions about the meaning, motivations, and implications of those events. This issue begins with an article which sets the stage for the tests, providing a retrospective on the political climate at the time and the steps each country took toward nuclear weapons development. The issue proceeds with topics focusing on nuclear doctrine, security of the weapons themselves, the implications of the U.S.-India nuclear agreement, and the options for a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT). A timeline of events in South Asia up to August 2009 completes the publication.

Issue Date:

2010

Publisher:

Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS) : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Citation Info:

Matthew A. Rosenstein, et al. Reassessing Nuclear South Asia, special journal issue of Swords and Ploughshares, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (fall 2010).